Saturday, July 20, 2013
Jeffery has been involved in Hope Centre
Ministries for a couple of years now. During the
Winter months, he attends a friendship
group consisting of bible study, worship, social time etc.
He has met
some amazing friends!
Hope ministry’s mission statement says:
" Hope Centre
exists to provide holistic,
person centred supports to people
with
intellectual disabilities and to promote
inclusive communities."
“We all have gifts,
there different."
Hope ministries also holds a summer mission opportunity called SERVE.
Jeff was a part of this
Ministry last summer and he is going
again. SERVE 2013 begins TODAY! He has
waited since
Registering back in March. His bags are packed, he has his bed roll,
pillow,etc, and he is ready.
The participants meet at Covenant Christian Reform church in Winnipeg. This will
be their home base for the week. They will sleep there, take their meals, do
activities, worship, have small group time, go to work sites each morning to help the community,
and also have time in the afternoons for
FUN.
The theme for SERVE this year is:
“JUST BE..
In Christ, Holy, Free, Transformed, Surrendered, Bold.”
Each evening in worship they will
explore these concepts.
Each participant
has their own mentor for the week, who will pray with them, guide the
small group time and
generally be their go-to person.
Jeffery
and his friend, Donovan who is also going to SERVE where commissioned at our church
last Sunday. They also took time to pray for Jeff about his
upcoming surgery.
That was an awesome time.
SERVE finishes Thursday, July25th. Thanks for keeping the SERVE group in your prayers and for checking the blog.
I am wondering how SERVE went? I guess I could ask Donovan too as I know he also went. I love the theme for this years Serve. I think I would like to adopt that for my life!!
ReplyDeleteHope all is well.